1
: a pen or enclosure for confining or capturing livestock
herded the cattle into the corral
2
: an enclosure made with wagons for defense of an encampment
corralled; corralling
1
: to enclose in a corral (see corral entry 1 sense 1)
corralled the horses
2
: to arrange (wagons) so as to form a corral (see corral entry 1 sense 2)
Examples of corral in a Sentence
Noun
the horses live in our corral, along with a cow
Verb
corralled everyone in the conference room for a speech by the CEO
corralled a scattering of stray pens and quickly stuffed them in the drawer to tidy the desk
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 June 2025
Comprised of a 31-room main home and an adjacent guest house, stable, golf course, and corrals, the estate was donated to California in 1944 by Rogers’s window, Betty.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
Josh Gross, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
Allies have been corralled, cajoled and pressured to hike their defense expenditure from 2% to 5% of each member nation's gross domestic product by 2035, even as some have struggled to meet the lower target.
—Holly Ellyatt,steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 25 June 2025
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Noun
Humpback whales were already known to use bubbles to corral, and males have been observed creating bubble trails or bursts when competing for a female mate, according to the SETI Institute.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 June 2025
Comprised of a 31-room main home and an adjacent guest house, stable, golf course, and corrals, the estate was donated to California in 1944 by Rogers’s window, Betty.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
Capping the decisive three-goal sequence in the 38th minute, Corona controlled the ball at midfield, charged down the pitch without a defender in sight and struck a shot with his right foot from 24 yards out that was corralled by the side netting.
—Josh Gross, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
Allies have been corralled, cajoled and pressured to hike their defense expenditure from 2% to 5% of each member nation's gross domestic product by 2035, even as some have struggled to meet the lower target.
—Holly Ellyatt,steve Sedgwick, CNBC, 25 June 2025
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“Corral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/corral. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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corral
1 of 2 noun
cor·ral
kə-ˈral 
1
: a pen for keeping or capturing livestock
2
: an enclosure made with wagons for defense of a camp
corral
2 of 2 verb
corralled; corralling
1
: to keep in or as if in a corral
2
3
: to arrange wagons so as to form a corral
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